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Volume XIV, Number 1
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January 26, 1989
Former congressman
teaches at UNCA
by Michael Gouge
Assisiant News Editor
Lamar Gudger, former
congressman and special
superior court judge, has
joined the faculty of UNCA’s
political science department.
Teaching a course on
constitutional law, Gudger
brings his legal experiences
to UNCA students.
Dr. Bob Farzanegan,
chairman of the political
science department
commented that Gudger’s
class "is a popular course,
well attended by students
going to law school." The
course, Farzanegan said, has
been taught by "several
prominent attorneys,
including Senator Dennis
Winner."
Gudger has received a
gracious welcome from the
political science department.
"We’re fortunate to have
someone with his experience
and background. He, if
anyone, is qualified to teach
it." Farzanegan said.
Since leaving his post on
the Superior Court Gudger
said > 'Tmback practicing law
and have been very active."
In regards to his new role as
a professor he said, "I’m
enjoying myself. I enjoy
teaching; I’m having a great
time of it. The students
appear to be interested, I
hope to make this (course)
interesting and informative
plus educational."
Gudger’s class focuses on
the Constitution and
important Supreme Court
decisions. The former judge
has developed his own
program of study, "teaching
the course with about one-
third history, one-third
political science, and a third
on judicial interpretation."
He plans to aim his course
"at those who are political
science, history, as well as law
students." Gudger says his
course will have "a strong
emphasis on the history of
the Constitutional
Convention, a study of
political science as it applies
to the concepts of the
Constitution."
By looking at the
background qualifications of
the framers of the
Constitution, Gudger wishes
to instruct students on "the
circumstances that existed in
1787 at the Constitutional
Convention."
Gudger said that he has
been given almost a free
reign over his course. "I hope
they will be satisfied with my
program.'They’ve trusted me
to know what to project."
N. C. elector says:
‘Just doing my job’
by Scarlet Bell
News Editor
James M. Baley, Jr. did not
know that 1988 would be his
year to elect President
George Herbert Walker
Bush.
However, as member .s of
the North Carolina Electoral
College, it was Asheville
resident Baley’s and 12 other
N.C. electors’ duty to confirm
Bush’s popular election last
November.
'To be perfectly honest with
you, I didn’t know I had been
elected - I wasn’t really in
a race for this. This is not
a thing that normally creates
much excitement because all
in the world we do is go
down and vote for the
president who is selected by
our party."
Baley was selected at a
Republican state convention
last June to serve as one of
two Republican "at large"
representatives in the North
Carolina Electoral College.
North Carolina Democrats
select two representatives at
large, also, according to
Baley.
In addition to the two
electors who are chosen in
each party at the respective
state conventions, Baley said
the two parties in each
congressional district in North
Carolina choose one
representative for the
electoral college, which totals
13 electors in all for each
party.
The political party whose
candidate receives the most
popular votes in North
Carolina, Republicans in
this case , sends it;, electors
to vote on its candidate
and confirm his N.C. victory.
Had Dukakis won the
popular vote in North
Carolina, the Democrats
would have sent their chosen
electors to confirm his N.C.
victory, according to Baley.
"We serve simply as a
somewhat clerical (group) it
seems to me like - we don’t
have any choice about what
our votes are. We were just
the instruments through
which they carried this out
■■ Bush’s election."
Baley said that if had not
shown up on Dec. 19 to vote
for Bush, though, he would
have been fined $500 under
North Carolina law; he said
he is not bound by any
constitutional law to vote for
a certain candidate, however.
But Baley said he did "do
his duty," and voted for Bush
at the meeting of the
electors. He added that the
Slate of North Carolina took
a special interest in this
year’s electoral college
ceremony to better educate
the public about how the
electoral college operates.
"It was probably given more
recognition in the state of
North Carolina than
anywhere else in the county.
The bicentennial committee
took an interest in this as a
traditional portion of the
election process and they
wanted to give it largely to
educate the public a little bit
about how the thing
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Dr. Malcolm Blowers and Chancellor David
Brown break ground on the new lihraiy
expansion.
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The new addition will house nearly a half
million hooks as well as several private and
group study rooms.
Library gas leak causes evacuation
by Michael Gouge
Assisiani News Ikiiior
The first day of classes
found some students and
faculty having to evacuate the
area around Ramsey Library
due to the rupture of a
hidden gas line.
Tom Byers, special assistant
to the chancellor, said "the
drawings and records failed
to identify the gas line." Byers
said that the crews, "had no
knowledge of its locatio''" is
they were excavating behind
the library.
Construction crews struck
the hidden line with a back-
hoe as they were clearing
ground for the new library
expansion. As Byers said, "It
was a potentially dangerous
situation and our crew, along
with the fire department,
took the right kind of action."
Byers acknowledged that
more hidden lines might be
present and the crews will
have to use caution against
possibly striking another
uncharted line.
Jim Efland, UNCA’s
facilities planner, also
commented that construction
crews uncovered two
unmarked lines. "We had the
utilities mark the lines. The
gas company didn’t mark it,
we’re having to move that
line too."
Efland said that problems
such as uncovering hidden
pipes or cables are common
in construction work but gas
lines can create a serious
situation. "Any time you deal
with it.'t’s dangerous. We
got the fire department in
case a fire had started."
As strictly a precautionary
measure, the Asheville Fire
Department was dispatched
to the scene. Efland reported
that "we have to take those
precautions. Everything went
well." Efland praised the
actions of all those involved,
commenting that it was "the
way to handle any
emergency."
District Chief John Young
of the Asheville Fire
Department was on the
scene of the gas leak. Young
reported that the leak posed
no major threat to anyone
other than fire fighters and
utilities workmen. "It was in
an open area, well ventilated.
We evacuated one building,
(Carmichael Hall) but there
was no problen- the gas went
straight up."
Library
catches
fire
by Kenneth Coxie
Assistant Sports Editor
You could smell the smoke
all the way from Carmichael
as the Asheville Fire
Department put out a blaze
in Ramsey Library Jan. 19
around 4:30 p.m. It broke out
due to the construction on
the library, but no one was
injured or harmed in the
incident.
"We were cutting old
frames out of windows and
a spark got in the roof and
caught fire," said Gary Moore
who was the first construction
worker to detect the fire. "It
was smoldering, and they
finally saw a little blaze.
"Sometimes a construction
crew can get it out by
themselves. It is common to
have small fires like this one
when you are doing
construction," said Moore.
The fire may have started
out small but it soon began
to grow and pose a threat to
the library. "It was almost out
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Students now graduate with big debts
(CPS) " Eight years after
they rode into Washington,
D.C. pledging to change
federal student aid forever,
members of the Reagan
administration can say they
succeeded. In their wake,
they’re leaving students who
generally have to borrow aid
money they used to get as
grants.
Virtually all observers --
whether conservative or
liberal — say the dramatic
shift in financial aid programs
from grants to loans probably
is the administration’s most
enduring campus
accomplishment.
"Debt," said Fred Azearate,
president of the U.S. Student
Association (USSA) in
Washington, D.C., "is the
great legacy of the Reagan
administration for students."
Still others are disappointed
the trend away from grants
wasn’t faster.
"The intent of financial aid
was to supplement the cost
(of a college education),"
contended Jeanne Allen of
the Heritage Foundation, a
conservative think tank that
helped develop many of the
administration’s campus
policies.
"It was never meant to
guarantee everyone gets a
college education," she
continued. "Ronald Reagan’s
goal was to get back to the
original intent...to ensure full
access to a college education,
but not that it would be fully
paid by the federal
government."
Allen said Reagan largely
succeeded in "making sure
only the people who were ■
deserving got aid money."
President Reagan came into
office with other education
goals, too, like abolishing the
Department of Education,
shifting the responsibility for
funding campuses from
Washington to the states
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